DEMONSTRATION WORK IN INCIDENT, STORY AND SONG 



by utilizing old and new vegetables and fruits. She sent to 

 other countries for seed and aroused the greatest interest and 

 enthusiasm among the girls and women throughout the 

 state. But best of all, she made the new agents understand 

 the methods, genius and spirit of this new line of work. 



The following quotations are taken from her reports 

 made while the work was in a formative stage : 



"Our Demonstration Work has originated under very bright 

 skies, for of all the centuries this is the best century, of all the 

 decades of a century, this is the best decade, and of all the years of a 

 decade we hope to make this the very best for rural community up- 

 lift. The world is what we make it and most of the things of this 

 life may be set to music, but sometimes people select the wrong tune 

 and sing ragtime when perhaps they should sing Coronation. Among 

 the encouraging developments in our work is the unparalleled flow of 

 inquiries coming in, regarding material resources. Indications are 

 that this year's harvest will increase, the com fields will be more 

 golden and the granaries more crowded. Remembering that every 

 dewdrop has a solo, every sunbeam a psalm and every flower a censer; 

 amid so much beauty, luxuriance and promise, how can we complain?" 



"Demonstration Work in the homes! Doesn't that appeal to 

 us? Upon what does the organization of every home depend? For 

 the most part, upon the woman. She is the queen of domestic Hfe. 

 Her power of organization, her business management is what brings 

 comfort and happiness to the home. Hers is the province to make 

 home a true home, where comfort and happiness are supreme. 

 First among her qualities is the intelligent use of her hands and 

 fingers. The tidy, handy woman of management, at whose finger's 

 ends are wisdom and virtues, is indispensable to the comfort of the 

 household. The successful housewife is a woman of method, for 

 without method, discontent and confusion hold sway. Punctuality 

 and method in a home put to flight many little nuisances and even 

 disperse clouds of grumbling sometimes. Add becoming tastes to 

 these qualities and you have the requisites which contribute beauty to 

 the humblest home, even where poverty exists." 



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